Wanna Peek Into My Notebook? Notes on Pinay Liminality Quotes

“I agree that it’s white supremacy and patriarchy at work when we’re shut down for speaking our minds, putting ‘unapproved’ messages out there. But I want to think about who enforces white supremacy and patriarchy among our ranks. Who benefits from our being shut down. How can we call this out without being shut down further.”
― Barbara Jane Reyes, Wanna Peek Into My Notebook? Notes on Pinay Liminality

“Some of the most interesting works of ‘Asian American Literature’ thrive in the world of indie publishing and micro presses, where you will find our authors experimenting, prolific, testifying, refusing to conform to any single ‘Asian American’ canonical representation or well-behaved institutional standards.”
― Barbara Jane Reyes, Wanna Peek Into My Notebook? Notes on Pinay Liminality

“Why are we reliant upon institutions such as the Poetry Foundation to give us our worth and determine our meaning. Why do we give these others the power [sic] define us. Do we think this is the only way that we will become visible to our own communities. And isn’t this a problem as well.”
― Barbara Jane Reyes, Wanna Peek Into My Notebook? Notes on Pinay Liminality